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Also known as Nora Drummond-Davis, Nora Drummond was born in Bath, Somerset, England in 1862. She was from an artistic family background, as her father, John Joseph Drummond, was a former Master of the Bath School of Art and Design and an art tutor to the Royal Family. Her mother was the daughter of the artist James Hardy and several other members of her family had prominent reputations as artists and musicians as well. Shortly after the turn of the century, she immigrated with her husband Daniel Joseph Davies to Canada, living for some years in Alberta.
Nora Drummond was best known as a creator of illustrations for reproduction, notably for the British publishing company, Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd, a company with interests in the US and Canada. She specialized in images of dogs and country scenes and in Canada, she painted landscapes. She lived in Banff for a time and taught art at the Banff School where she apparently gave art lessons to Peter Whyte, an amateur painter and art lover who, with his wife Catharine set up the foundation that later financed the creation of the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. Whyte recalled her as an eccentric woman who lived with eleven dogs and a horde of cats, but remembered her as an excellent teacher.
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